We wish we could say that the staff and members of the GTA Integrity Institute Hungary are often invited to comment on current events and issues thanks to their collective expertise.

However, the reality tells a different story. In the decades since the left-liberal Budapest corruption investigation — the subsequent discrediting of the report and the dismantling of Transparency International’s Hungarian chapter — not once has the press approached us for our insights. This kind of professional discrediting of whistleblowers is, unfortunately, not uncommon.

Below, you can find the academic journals and publications where we have consistently raised important issues: the corruption of the judiciary in Hungary (1997, 1998, 2008), the threat to the rule of law and democracy (1997), the influence of organised crime and offshore structures on Hungary (2000), a scholarly book on municipal corruption (2007), and research on international corruption networks (2013) — culminating in an analysis of their impact on Hungarian sovereignty in 2025.

Today, we are working to break through these barriers and share our findings with the public — because we believe solutions do exist.

Our motto: “An expert’s value is not in explaining what has already happened, but in measuring, analysing, drawing conclusions, and offering proposals — proposals that stand the test of time.”